Exciter with separate housing and mounting plate
AssigneeSandvik Rock Processing Australia Pty Limited
InventorsDouglas Robert Teyhan, Tim Stanton Cook, Andreas Wieltsch, Simon Mann
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Abstract
A vibration exciter apparatus includes an exciter housing and at least one bearing means supporting at least one driven shaft carrying eccentric mass means. The exciter housing has an array of bore passages extending from an upper wall of the exciter housing to a lower wall of the exciter housing and a mounting structure plate securable to mineral processing or handling equipment intended to be vibrated by the exciter apparatus. The mounting structure plate includes an array of fastener receiving zones, whereby elongated fastener means can pass through the bore passages from the upper wall to be engaged in the fastener receiving zones.
Claims35
A vibration exciter apparatus being mountable to vibration processing or handling equipment to impose, in use, a vibration regime to said vibration processing or handling equipment, said vibration exciter apparatus comprising:
- an exciter casing having a lower wall, two opposed end wall portions extending upwardly from opposed end zones of the lower wall and having an upwardly facing surface and two opposed side faces together defining an internal zone, said exciter casing further having a plurality of spaced first fastener positioning locations positioned at or adjacent the upwardly facing surface and configured in a first array, said exciter casing also having a plurality of spaced second fastener positioning locations positioned at or adjacent the lower wall in a second array, whereby at least one of said first array of said first fastener positioning locations and/or said second array of said second fastener positioning locations co-operate with multiple fastener elements to secure said vibrational exciter apparatus in an operational position of use to said vibration processing or handling equipment with selectably either upwardly facing surface or the lower wall being positioned closer to said vibration processing or handling equipment, wherein the first array of said first fastener positioning locations are aligned with the second array of said second fastener positioning locations, whereby a said fastener element or multiple said fastener elements pass through both a said first fastener positioning location and a said second fastener positioning location when said vibration exciter apparatus is secured to said vibration processing or handling equipment.
A vibration exciter apparatus being mountable to vibration processing or handling equipment to impose, in use, a desired vibration regime to said vibration processing or handling equipment, said vibration exciter apparatus comprising:
- an exciter casing having an upper wall and an opposed lower wall spaced from said upper wall, said lower wall and said upper wall being connected by two opposed mutually spaced end wall portions, said exciter casing having two spaced and opposed side faces, said exciter casing further having a plurality of spaced fastener positioning locations, each said fastener positioning location having at least a first portion positioned at or adjacent an upwardly facing surface of the upper wall of the exciter casing and a second portion aligned with said first portion located at or adjacent a downwardly facing surface of the lower wall of the exciter casing, and a plurality of elongated fastener elements each having a length to pass through said aligned first and second portions of a said fastener positioning location and being cooperable with at least some of said fastener positioning locations to, in use, mount said vibration exciter apparatus to said vibration processing or handling equipment with selectably either said upper wall or said lower wall of said exciter casing being closer to or spaced from said vibration processing or handling equipment.
A vibration exciter apparatus being mountable to vibration processing or handling equipment to impose, in use a vibration regime to processing or handling equipment, said vibration exciter apparatus comprising:
- an exciter casing with an upper wall, a lower wall, opposed end walls, and opposed side faces defining an internal zone operationally supporting spaced bearing means;
- spaced first and second driven shafts each being supported by a respective said bearing means, whereby an end portion of each of said first driven shaft and said second driven shaft extends beyond a side face of said exciter casing and carries an eccentric mass, said vibration exciter apparatus still further including a mounting plate separate to said exciter casing and securable, in use, to said vibration processing or handling equipment, said exciter casing having multiple spaced fastener receiving bore means extending through said exciter casing from a first end zone at or adjacent said upper wall of said exciter casing part to a second end zone at or adjacent said lower wall of said exciter casing, said mounting plate including multiple spaced fastener receiving fitting means positioned whereby a said first end zone, or a said second end zone of respective said fastener receiving bore means are alignable with a said fastener receiving fitting means in said mounting plate.
A vibration exciter apparatus casing for use in vibration exciter apparatus arranged to be mounted to vibration processing or handling equipment to impose, in use, a vibration regime to said vibration processing or handling equipment, said vibration exciter apparatus casing having an upper wall, a lower wall spaced from said upper wall being connected by two opposed mutually spaced end wall portions, said vibration exciter apparatus casing further having two opposed side faces, said vibration exciter apparatus casing further having a plurality of spaced fastener positioning locations, each said fastener positioning location having at least a first portion positioned at or adjacent an upwardly facing surface of the upper wall of the vibration exciter apparatus casing and at least a second portion located at or adjacent a downwardly facing surface of the lower wall of the vibration exciter apparatus casing, whereby said vibration exciter apparatus casing, when forming part of vibration exciter apparatus, is mountable to said vibration processing or handling equipment by elongated fastener members with selectably either said upwardly facing surface or said downwardly facing surface or said vibration exciter apparatus casing being closer to or spaced from said vibration processing or handling equipment.
A vibration exciter assembly being mountable to processing or handling equipment to impose in use a desired vibration regime to said processing or handling equipment, said vibration exciter assembly including an exciter apparatus comprising an exciter casing and a mounting plate separate from said exciter apparatus, said separate mounting plate being securable in a desired mounting position to said processing or handling equipment, said exciter apparatus having a plurality of exciter casing fastener receiving zones disposed in a first array, said mounting plate having a plurality of first mounting plate fastener receiving locations disposed in a second array, whereby at least some of said exciter casing fastener zones are alignable with at least some of said first mounting plate receiving locations whereby said exciter apparatus is securable to the mounting plate by a plurality of first fastener elements each being cooperable with a respective one of said exciter casing fastener receiving zone and a first mounting plate fastener receiving location, wherein the exciter casing includes exciter casing annular ring formations cooperable with mounting plate physical formation means to relatively locate said first array with said second array.
A method of replacing a first vibration exciter apparatus secured by a plurality of removable first fastener elements to a first installation position on processing or handling equipment whereby, in use, said first vibration exciter apparatus imposes a vibration regime to said processing or handling equipment, said first fastener elements being engaged with first fastener receiving locations disposed in a first array in said first installation position, said method comprising the steps of:
- removing said first vibration exciter apparatus from said first installation position;
- installing an adapter mounting plate to said first installation position, said adapter mounting plate having a plurality of second fastener receiving locations in a second array being alignable with second fastener receiving locations on a second vibration exciter apparatus;
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- installing the second vibration exciter apparatus on said processing or handling equipment by utilizing second fastener elements engageable with said second vibration exciter apparatus and into a respective second fastener receiving location in said adapter mounting plate, wherein said adapter mounting plate includes a plurality of third fastener receiving locations disposed to be alignable with said first array of fastener receiving locations in said first installation position, said adapter mounting plate being securable by said first fastener elements or by third fastener elements engageable with said third fastener receiving locations and said first fastener receiving locations.
A vibration exciter apparatus being mountable to vibration processing or handling equipment to impose in use a vibration regime to said vibration processing or handling equipment, said vibration exciter apparatus comprising an exciter casing with a lower wall, a first end wall and a second end wall respectively extending upwardly from opposed end zones of said lower wall, said lower wall and said first and said second end walls defining an internal zone of the exciter casing having an upwardly facing surface and two opposed side faces, said exciter casing further having a plurality of spaced first fastener positioning locations configured in a first array, said first fastener positioning locations permitting fastener elements to pass there through to engage with fastener engagement locations of an engagement zone of said vibration processing or handling element, said fastener engagement locations being arranged in a second array, said second array having a first end zone and a second opposed end zone, whereby when mounting said vibration exciter apparatus to said vibration processing or handling equipment, said vibration exciter apparatus is selectably rotatable about an intermediate vertical axis to position either a first end zone of said first array of fastener positioning locations or a second end zone of said first array of fastener positioning locations with a said first end zone of said second array of said fastener engagement locations whereby said fastener elements enable mounting of said vibration exciter apparatus to said vibration handling or processing equipment.
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